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Summary: Good Starting Book!
Comment: This is the best way to get a feel for all the features that fireworks has. Even though it can hardly scratch the surface of this powerful program, it still puts all the best features of this program in a nice and tidy book for you.
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Summary: Could not use Fireworks without this book
Comment: Macromedia Fireworks is not an easy program to write a manual for. For example, its palettes are not labeled, many buttons are not labeled, and so forth. You have to click around to discover what functions certain screen artifacts serve. Given that, I respect anyone who can write a decent manual for it.I do *not* respect the documentation that shipped with the product. I simply could not accomplish anything in a short time by trying to use either the printed manuals or online help (which is *really* bad). In fact, I was resigned to the fact that Fireworks was not going to be useful for me. Fortunately, my wife had a copy of this book (and I have bought another copy too). After I followed some of its instructions, I actually began using Fireworks for a lot of my web graphics tasks. Had it not been for Sandee's book, I would have given up on Fireworks and gone back to using other software products.
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Summary: decent but lacking
Comment: This book will get you up to speed with Fireworks, but it doesn't even do a better job than the manual. The author writes in a clear and concise voice, but the book is just lacking too much critical information as well as the why's to the how's.
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Summary: Eureka!
Comment: This is a well-written and comprehensive quick reference manual about a great web graphics program. As much as WHAT is in here, I was impressed with HOW it is all organised and presented. It's clear, logical and very good-looking (the author even invented a special font for the printing!) There are so many features within Fireworks, that it's easy to get lost amongst the settings and menus. Sandee Cohen shows the way. She has real empathy with new user and upgrader alike - at times I thought she was reading my mind! Until I bought this book I was struggling to discover where everything was, and what everything did. Apart from increasing my awareness of and enjoyment from using Fireworks 2, Sandee has helped to improve the productivity of our little company. I'm grateful for being spared the long learning curve at a time when we are really busy. Incidentally, she has a cat called Pixel! Excellent name. Excellent book.
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Summary: Looking for a quick start with Fireworks?? This is the book
Comment: My name is Johnathan Mark Smith I am a Webmaster and I also runthe Staten Island Macromedia User Group and I love this book. If you need to get a quick start with fireworks or need to find out how to do something, This is the book.
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